Hi all, Melmoz here. Man, it got cold here all of a sudden! It was 70 degrees just two days ago and now it is 45! The joys of living in the south of the US. Sinister Texas Round-Up ------------------------------------ Just want to announce that there will be a Sinister Round-Up in Texas coming up very soon!!!!! So all of you listees who live in Texas, live near Texas and want to visit us, or who will be around these parts, you are ALL invited! Email me if you would like to come, not too sure on the date yet but it is in the works. I am thinking anywhere from late April to June would be a good time. School will be out by then and we can take our time making plans. We'll make more of a decision when I hear who wants to come. Good ol' Vince the Bee and myself will be organizing the whole thing. I know of 5 people who live in Texas so far. I was thinking of doing a Dallas get-together first, since it is my hometown and I kind of wanted my first sponsored Sinister event to run smoothly and in a familiar environment for me. But if we have other requests, I am open to anything. Ken Chu, wanna come??? Heard you wanted to visit Texas someday, now's your chance! So, put on your boots, and lord knows don't forget that horse (you know that is the Texan mode of transportation, that and SUVs) and come on down (or up) for the Sinister Texas Round-up!! More details to follow! Goin crazy with CDs: ------------------------------------- I went nuts at Virgin records the other day and bought tons of cd's! I sold some stuff on Ebay and took that money and bought myself about 12 cds. Included: Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs Vol 1, Black Box Recorder, Arab Strap, Magnetic Fields 'Get Lost', Velvet Underground, JJ72 and some old Erasure, and many more. Thanks for whoever recommended Arab Strap, they are the cat's pajamas. I also dig 69 Love Songs Vol 1, but can anyone write and tell me if Vol 2 and 3 are good and worth a buy? What really sucked about the Virgin outing was that I had a coupon for $25 off a $100 purchase and forgot it. Uck! This past weekend, I attended a music convention here in Dallas. Well, if you can call it a convention. It was mostly just old hippies selling old Peter Frampton records and what not. Not at all what Vince and I were hoping to see, of course we wanted more indie bands and whatnot. I think that I was one of the only females in the place, and it didn't help matters much that I was wearing a mini-skirt. Got many a look from scruffy old men. B&S Content: ------------------------------------- Oh yeah, I finally bought B&S Modern Rock Song and Legal Man on Ebay, as well as Sodastream. Have you guys heard about them? They sound strangely like B&S I must say, which is what drew me to them. I heard about them through www.microindie.com, pretty good site. Do you ever notice that some B&S songs have a VERY similar chord progressions to other artists' songs? I have noticed the following: 1. "Take Your Carriage Clock and Shove It" chords sound like "I've Never Been to Me" on the Priscilla Queen of the Desert soundtrack (listen for a while) 2. "Mayfly" beginning chords sounds like "Another Pleasant Valley Sunday" 3. "Get Me Away from Here I'm Dying" chords sounds like Pachelbel's Canon I might be totally wacked but at least they do to me. Remember I'm not making any comparisons of B&S to those artists, only the chords!!!!! Well enough from Melmoz. Night all.... Melmozduck =================================================== "Most of the time you are happy, you're a weirdo" -Charlatans UK +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+